NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Sigma-Aldrich has launched a new life sciences brand platform in an effort to "elevate the company's current focus on biology and provide a single destination where researchers can access" biological knowledge, products, and technologies, the firm said in a statement this week. The new "Where Bio Begins" brand is meant to bring attention to the firm's biology focus.
Cyntellect will provide researchers at Harvard University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute with its Leap Cell Processing Workstation. The researchers will work with Cyntellect's Stem Cell Manager on the Leap Workstation for projects aimed at selectively processing stem cells to "define the factors and mechanisms that regulate the migration, expansion, and regenerative potential of adult blood-forming and muscle-forming stem cells."
The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received funding from the National cancer Institute to become a Center for Cancer Systems Biology. The MIT institute is one of 11 to be named centers. It did not disclose the amount of funding it received from NCI.